This title was first published in 1982. The authors deal with the experiences of modern women with penetrating sincerity and honesty, but their philosophic profundity in understanding modern life, their intellectual capacity to view their experience in a historical and social context.

Noriko Mizuta Lippit, Kyoko Iriye Selden

Stories by Contemporary Japanese Women Writers; The Family of Koiwai; The Full Moon; Blind Chinese Soldiers; Narcissus; Memory of a Night; Love in Two Lives: The Remnant; To Stab; Ants Swarm; Facing the Hills They Stand; Congruent Figures; The Smile of a Mountain Witch; Yellow Sand